A few days after the funeral of that woman called Qin Keqing was over, the troublesome little girl immortal, who had been wandering around the Divine Capital for nearly half a month, finally drifted back to the Rongguo Immortal Estate and Lin Daiyu's floating island courtyard.
After that, time flew by, and before long, another two months had passed.
The estate had been peaceful over the past two months. Nothing major had happened, and the greatest changes had been in Daiyu and the others.
During this time, not only had Lin Daiyu's cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, but Tanchun and Daiyu's personal maids, Zijuan and Xueyan, seemed to have been completely transformed as well.
Still, even with their cultivation advancing so quickly, they had to keep up with their usual daily tasks.
Like now.
That day, Annie was once again hanging out and chatting idly with Daiyu and Tanchun in the study.
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Summer had begun, so Annie was sprawled lazily on a chaise longue beneath the window, its cushion covered in cool ice-silkworm silk. She toyed listlessly with an intricate Luban lock, her eyes half-lidded, looking utterly languid and indolent.
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Lin Daiyu and Jia Tanchun, meanwhile, sat facing each other at the desk across from her. An open book of chess problems lay beside a chessboard, and the two were quietly discussing how to solve a certain immortal chess puzzle, occasionally picking up a black or white stone and setting it back down.
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Zijuan and Xueyan stood by on either side.
One gently fanned the two young ladies as they played, while the other stared at a book with a deeply troubled expression, scratching her head from time to time as if finding the text extremely difficult to understand.
Still, at least the